Chapter 50: Chapter 50
Locked in my room, I opened the first book of three books that my teacher had left me, it was a carefully crafted book, its cover was made of leather and the letters with the name of the book were written with gold.
When I opened it, it looked like an anatomy book, specific for a humanoid demon, the first part was simple, where each organ was, its functions, which were vital organs and how long it would take to die when losing a vital organ, and the possibilities of replacing or restoring them.
Later he showed a circulatory system of demonic energy, which specifically established the ideal absorption method to enhance the long-term potential of absorption, the first was to learn to absorb demonic energy; the second was to understand how demonic energy circulated; the third was to expel all demonic energy; the fourth was to absorb more intensely the demonic energy and make it circulate through each point in which the demonic energy circulated; the fifth was to learn all of the above and repeat it until it became an act as natural as breathing. When I read that, I imagined that I would spend my youth locked in the dark cave, even so, determined not to spend my youth in a cave I began to observe carefully each drawing and scheme present in the book and its indications. In the following four pages I drew the drawings of the four steps, I hope they will be useful.
Mart attentive to every word, saw on the next page the drawing of a humanoid body and the hundreds or thousands of demonic energy circulation channels, and the indications to absorb mana efficiently based on the demonic energy circulatory system.
[Demonic system: higher level demonic energy absorption technique detected.]
[Storing data of the higher level demonic energy absorption technique...].
Mart began to feel his demonic energy being drained at a faster rate, he began to drink all his potions, he felt his body absorbing the demonic energy which circulated through his body to be absorbed by the book soon after, even though he was drinking potions, just the fact of constantly losing demonic energy was enough to exhaust a body despite the elixirs. He barely had two third rank elixirs of his own left when the system notified.
[Higher level demonic energy absorption technique (incomplete)].
"He said it was 4 drawings, the other three drawings are missing; I won’t die will I?", Mart asked himself in his mind, as he felt his body was somewhat exhausted. Mart looked at the contents of his demonic bag, he saw 12 2nd rank demonic potions, 4 3rd rank and one 4th rank. Although they were only potions to restore demonic energy, a fourth rank potion should be useful in an emergency and Asfil had handed it to him, "wow, I’ll have to thank him, properly," Mart took out all the remaining potions, the desk he was at was crammed with empty vials that already looked like an alchemist’s desk.
The green-haired, bespectacled student just thought, "I think this guy is going crazy," but since it was none of his business he continued reading his own book.
Mart turned to the next page of the book and saw the image of a demon in meditation position, still showing the demonic energy circulatory system, but also focusing on the surrounding energy.
[Storing data from the higher level demonic energy absorption technique...]
Again the book began to drain Mart’s demonic energy, but the frequency with which it drained had increased further, it wasn’t long before Mart had to drink the fourth degree demonic potion.
After drinking the fourth degree potion Mart began to feel a slight pain in places on his body that he was unaware of, but it took him a short time to understand, "these are my mana circulation channels". Mart concentrated on following the flow of his energy in his body to recognize each place where he felt pain, and not to forget it, so that every detail would be engraved deep in his mind.
[Higher level demonic energy absorption technique (incomplete)]
"I imagined it," Mart thought as he saw the notification, he had already made up his mind that he had to see the other two drawings, but he didn’t count on more demonic potions, nor the stamina, as he felt as tired at that moment as when he suffered from severe fatigue.
Mart closed the book, leaned back in the chair, and closed his eyes for a few seconds. "Higher level demonic energy absorption technique; if this is what he was teaching his disciple, the master must have been crazy or that was common in those days." Mart opened his eyes again and stored in his demonic bag all the vials in which were the potions he had been drinking. He then handed the book to the front desk and left.
Mart came out with a tired face, and saw Emy watching him, she got up and walked towards him and asked him:
-What are you reading?
-How to make my favorite librarian fall in love. -Mart smiled confidently and walked away.
[Altering the heart of a pure young woman: reward.]
"Damn, there’s something missing there; she’s cute," Mart retorted in his mind.
[This system bases its data using the appearance of your past conquests as a basis]
[Host, lust allows everything, so there are still rewards].
Mart felt that the system was mocking him, but he chose to ignore it, as he reached the threshold of the library, he looked at Emy who looked sad, then she saw him and he smiled and waved his hand once in farewell.
Mart felt exhausted, physically and mentally, he was walking through the corridors barely illuminated by some luminous stones, at that moment the system showed a notification.
[Laziness trait activated]
Mart didn’t pay that much attention to him because he ran into three students, one of them was Serp and the other was the student he had hit when he was walking with Iristel.
-You know, both Eriant and Alchron want us to beat you up.
"These bastards, why don’t they attack outside the academy, so nothing would stop me from killing them; System, do you detect demon god energy?" thought Mart with his tired look.
[Low concentration of demon god energy detected.]
"Low concentration; how boring," Mart kept walking without paying attention to them and when Serp was about to try to hit him he whispered in a sleepy voice:
-Go to sleep, you bastards.
[Sleeper Mandate: special reward]
Mart continued on his way and the three students walked with blank stares to their own rooms.
Mart entered his room and threw himself on the bed.
[Host will hibernate for twenty-four hours.]